- #1 Life is Feudal: Your Own
97% matchMixed66% of 12,039 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.3 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.4% ★, Open World 11.1%, Crafting 10.4%, Sandbox 10.4%, Survival 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly gritty, medieval-focused sandbox experience with deep terraforming and complex crafting mechanics.
- #2 Valheim
96% matchVery Positive94% of 529,829 reviews2021
Dev: Iron Gate ABPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 25.6 hrsMean: 76.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.4% ★, Open World 10.8%, Crafting 9.5%, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: It captures the rewarding sense of progression and building in a hostile wilderness that fans of Wurm will find familiar.
- #3 Wurm Online
96% matchMixed63% of 2,510 reviews2020
Dev: Code Club AB
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 38.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
A sandbox MMORPG that has pushed the boundaries on what it means to be open world and stood the test of time. Dig, mine, shape the world around you and make your lasting mark!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Sandbox 17.7%, MMORPG 11.3% ★, Building 8.7%, RPG 7.4%
Why You'll Like It: As the original MMORPG version of the seed game, it provides the most authentic experience of the persistent, player-run world.
- #4 Conan Exiles
95% matchMostly Positive79% of 111,441 reviews2018
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 16.9 hrsMean: 111.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
An online multiplayer survival game, now with sorcery, set in the lands of Conan the Barbarian. Survive in a vast open world sandbox, build your home into a kingdom, and dominate your enemies in single or multiplayer.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.4% ★, Open World 13.3%, Survival 12.5%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: This title offers a massive, brutal open world with deep building mechanics and a focus on survival against both environment and players.
- #5 Myth of Empires
94% matchMixed67% of 17,261 reviews2024
Dev: Angela GamePub: Imperium Interactive Entertainment
Windows
Median: 15.4 hrsMean: 230.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Myth of Empires is a multiplayer war sandbox game featuring a high degree of freedom and multiple civilizations. Players must survive, craft, create, and lead troops in their quest to conquer PVE or PVP territory and build their own empire. Xizhou Civilization Pack is now officially released!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, MMORPG 11.1% ★, Building 10.3%, Open World 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: This medieval sandbox emphasizes large-scale building, resource management, and player-driven political systems.
- #6 ARK: Survival Ascended
94% matchMixed60% of 100,735 reviews2023
Dev: Studio Wildcard
Windows
Median: 28.6 hrsMean: 195.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
ARK is reimagined from the ground-up into the next-generation of video game technology with Unreal Engine 5! Form a tribe, tame & breed hundreds of unique dinosaurs and primeval creatures, explore, craft, build, and fight your way to the top of the food-chain. Your new world awaits!
Why similar: Open World 17.1%, Survival 15.1%, Crafting 13.5%, Sandbox 12%, Building 12%
Why You'll Like It: It provides an incredibly deep sandbox experience with extensive crafting, base-building, and complex creature taming systems.
- #7 Citadel: Forged with Fire
93% matchMixed68% of 5,882 reviews2019
Dev: Blue Isle StudiosPub: Blue Isle Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.9 hrsMean: 19.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
This massive online sandbox RPG features elements of magic, spellcasting, building, exploring and crafting. As a newly minted apprentice of the magic arts, you will set off to the dangerous world of Ignus. Tame mighty beasts, forge alliances, explore uncharted territories or fight for dominance!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Open World 13.9%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.4%, Crafting 6.8%
Why You'll Like It: It combines open-world survival with magic and building, offering a fantasy sandbox experience similar to the setting of Wurm.
- #8 Wild Terra 2: New Lands
92% matchMixed52% of 3,315 reviews2022
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%
MMORPG full of details that create a unique immersion and the spirit of adventure! Play your role in the life-filled medieval world controlled by players.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.7% ★, Sandbox 11.3%, Crafting 8.6%, MMORPG 7.7% ★, Building 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: This MMORPG focuses heavily on crafting, gathering, and building within a persistent, player-driven world.
- #9 Eco
91% matchVery Positive81% of 13,777 reviews2018
Dev: Strange Loop Games
Windows
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 88.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Build a civilization of real people, working together to advance society and stop a meteor, all without destroying the ecosystem in the process.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Building 11.4%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: It features a highly complex, player-driven economy and ecosystem simulation that requires intense cooperation and long-term planning.
- #10 Rising World
91% matchVery Positive86% of 5,845 reviews2014
Dev: JIW-Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 21.3 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Rising World is a voxel based open-world sandbox game, featuring a procedurally generated world, playable in single and multi-player.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.8% ★, Sandbox 12%, Crafting 11.4%, Building 10.6%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a vast, procedurally generated world with a focus on voxel-based building and exploration.
- #11 Necesse
89% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.6% ★, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 8.6%, Survival 6.7%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down sandbox offers deep crafting, base-building, and progression systems that mirror the complexity of larger survival games.
- #12 Project Zomboid
89% matchVery Positive94% of 440,877 reviews2013
Dev: The Indie Stone
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 14.8 hrsMean: 82.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.5% ★, Survival 15.2%, Open World 13.2%, Sandbox 11%, Crafting 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: The depth of its simulation and the punishing nature of its survival mechanics appeal to players who enjoy the complexity of Wurm.
- #13 Boundless
90% matchMixed70% of 2,766 reviews2018
Dev: Monumental, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 33.0 hrs≥1hr: 51%
Shape your citizen, forge your destiny and sculpt your world in this epic voxel sandbox MMO built on endless possibility.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Sandbox 12.7%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.5%, Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a voxel-based universe where players can build, trade, and explore across multiple interconnected worlds.
- #14 Medieval Dynasty
88% matchVery Positive91% of 49,970 reviews2021
Dev: Render CubePub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 35.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Hunt, survive, build and lead in the harsh Middle Ages: Create your own Medieval Dynasty and ensure its long-lasting prosperity or die trying! Play alone or team up with friends to enjoy the ultimate medieval experience.
Why similar: Crafting 18.4%, Building 16.4%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 11.8%, Survival 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on the slow, methodical process of building a settlement and managing a community in a realistic medieval setting.
- #15 7 Days to Die
86% matchVery Positive87% of 396,805 reviews2024
Dev: The Fun PimpsPub: The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 16.8 hrsMean: 107.4 hrs≥1hr: 91%
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 14.6%, Open World 12.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Building 10.1%
Why You'll Like It: It offers a robust voxel-based building system paired with deep survival mechanics and a persistent, destructible world.
- #16 Solace Crafting
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.6% ★, Crafting 10.8%, Open World 9.5%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.4%
Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on an infinite open world with deep crafting and survival systems that prioritize player freedom.
- #17 Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG
85% matchMixed68% of 10,474 reviews2023
Dev: gamigo US
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 25.4 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Gloria Victis is an MMORPG with an emphasis on realism, set in a low-fantasy medieval open world. Enjoy MMO with skill-based non-target combat, open PVP with territory control, deep crafting system and player-driven economy – all that served with beautiful graphics and an immersive atmosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.8% ★, MMORPG 16.3% ★, Open World 14.3%, Crafting 8.6%, RPG 5.9%
Why You'll Like It: This game offers a realistic medieval setting with a focus on player-driven economy and large-scale territorial control.
- #18 Dark and Light
86% matchMixed52% of 11,804 reviews2017
Dev: Snail Games USA
Windows
Median: 8.3 hrsMean: 49.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Dark and Light is a vast sandbox survival RPG set in a world dominated by powerful elemental forces. Find your way in a meticulously crafted world, featuring breathtaking landscapes, a wide variety of mythical creatures, and limitless possibility to craft, build, and unlock dozens of powerful weapons, spells, and skills.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Open World 15.9%, Sandbox 14.3%, Survival 11.9%, MMORPG 8.6% ★
Why You'll Like It: It is a fantasy survival sandbox that features magic, building, and taming in a vast, dangerous world.
- #19 Life is Feudal: MMO
84% matchMixed40% of 7,330 reviews2018
Dev: LTG
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 45.7 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Experience the hardcore reality of the Middle Ages. Master survival, engage in deep-rooted RPG elements, navigate a bustling economy, build communities, and employ diplomatic strategy to thrive in Abella's vast expanse.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.9% ★, MMORPG 11.2% ★, Sandbox 10.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 7.5%
Why You'll Like It: It expands the core mechanics of the 'Your Own' version into a massive, persistent world with deep social and political interactions.
- #20 Reign Of Kings
84% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.7% ★, Open World 11.4%, Crafting 11%, Survival 9.7%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: This medieval survival game allows players to build, fight, and claim power in a harsh, player-run environment.
- #21 Planet Explorers
83% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Sandbox 14.9%, Open World 12.1%, Crafting 8.8%, Survival 6.9%
Why You'll Like It: It features a deep voxel-based building system and exploration on an alien planet with RPG elements.
- #22 Stationeers
82% matchVery Positive88% of 8,897 reviews2017
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 81.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!
Why similar: Sandbox 20%, Crafting 19.2%, Building 17.1%, Survival 14.6%, Base Building 13.5%
Why You'll Like It: For players who love the extreme technical complexity of Wurm, this game offers deep, logic-based construction and survival management.
- #23 Force of Nature
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,198 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.6% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 9.9%, Survival 9.6%, Open World 9%
Why You'll Like It: It blends survival, crafting, and exploration in a procedurally generated world with a focus on progression.
- #24 Dune: Awakening
79% matchMostly Positive70% of 74,372 reviews2025
Dev: Funcom
Windows
Median: 47.7 hrsMean: 95.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Dune: Awakening is an Open World Survival RPG where you can fully immerse yourself in the epic world of Dune. Alone or with friends, explore a vast open world Arrakis, survive the sandworms, build a home, craft an ornithopter, and unravel the mystery of the missing Fremen.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.4% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 9.6%, Building 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: It promises a massive open-world survival experience with deep building and social mechanics in an iconic setting.
- #25 GRAV
81% matchMixed47% of 6,921 reviews2015
Dev: BitMonster, Inc.
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 60%
GRAV is a sand box experience where you explore a multitude of planets, hunt strange alien creatures, build and defend outposts, craft weapons and armor, and attempt to survive against other players in a hostile environment.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40% ★, Open World 11.5%, Sandbox 10.5%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 8.5%
Why You'll Like It: This survival sandbox focuses on base-building and exploration in a sci-fi environment with persistent world elements.
- #26 Xsyon - Prelude
80% matchMostly Positive73% of 369 reviews2014
Dev: Notorious Games
Windows
Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30% ★, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10%, Crafting 9.7%, MMORPG 9.5% ★
Why You'll Like It: This post-apocalyptic sandbox focuses on player-driven society, building, and survival in a persistent world.
- #27 Realms of Magic
78% matchVery Positive81% of 986 reviews2022
Dev: Polished Games
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey through the Old Kingdom in Realms of Magic - a sandbox RPG where you customize your character, choose your path, and immerse yourself in the fantasy world as a knight, wizard, miner, lumberjack, farmer, and more. After all, this is YOUR adventure.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 51.9% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.6%, RPG 9.8%, Crafting 5.6%
Why You'll Like It: This 2D sandbox RPG offers deep crafting and building mechanics set in a classic fantasy world.
- #28 BitCraft Online
76% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,304 reviews2025
Dev: Clockwork Laboratories, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 11.8 hrsMean: 91.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Join thousands of players in a true single-world MMORPG. Carve out a cozy nook, master a player-driven economy, or band together to transform the ancient wilderness into thriving cities. From humble beginnings to legend, your choices matter - because in BitCraft, your actions shape our world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 37.7% ★, MMORPG 15.1% ★, Sandbox 13.4%, Crafting 9.7%, Open World 8.7%
- #29 Valnir Rok Survival RPG
79% matchMixed44% of 980 reviews2017
Dev: encurio
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Valnir Rok is a multiplayer survival roleplaying game in a Viking setting with quests by bestselling author Giles Kristian. Explore a huge open world, craft items, cook meals, build houses and found clan cities. Raid other clans or place bounties. Pray to the gods and survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.5% ★, Open World 18.5%, Survival 13.8%, RPG 8.4%, MMORPG 7.8% ★
Why You'll Like It: This Viking-themed survival game offers building, crafting, and RPG progression in a harsh, open-world setting.
- #30 Wild Terra Online
77% matchMixed60% of 1,830 reviews2017
Dev: Juvty Worlds
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Wild Terra Online is a sandbox RPG, in a completely player-controlled medieval world. You will have to survive in a forest full of predators, build a shelter and improve your crafts skills, tame animals and fight for treasures. You can become anyone and do whatever you want!
Why similar: Sandbox 17.2%, Open World 14.2%, Survival 11.7%, Crafting 10.2%, MMORPG 9.1% ★
- #31 Blockscape
78% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 48.6% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 8.4%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.1%
Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly detailed voxel-based building experience that allows for significant creative freedom.
- #32 Renown
74% matchMixed60% of 1,544 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.1 hrsMean: 16.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Building 8.8%
- #33 Creativerse
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 30,868 reviews2017
Dev: Playful Corp.
Windows
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 63%
A sandbox adventure game as big as your imagination.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Sandbox 11.5%, Crafting 11%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #34 Novus Inceptio
77% matchMixed52% of 1,300 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Sandbox 11.6%, Open World 10.9%, Crafting 10.8%, Survival 8.9%
- #35 Empyrion - Galactic Survival
73% matchMostly Positive79% of 34,087 reviews2020
Dev: Eleon Game Studios
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 76.7 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Build and explore in a true space sandbox survival adventure. Construct mighty capital vessels, sprawling planetary settlements, and vast space stations in your galactic journey to discover the mysteries of Empyrion!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.2% ★, Open World 11%, Sandbox 11%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 10%
- #36 Project: Gorgon
70% matchVery Positive87% of 4,441 reviews2026
Dev: Elder Game, LLC
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 11.3 hrsMean: 75.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Project: Gorgon is a fantasy MMORPG that allows you to forge your own path through exploration and discovery.
Why similar: MMORPG 27.6% ★, RPG 20.8%, Massively Multiplayer 15.4%, Open World 10.9%, Sandbox 10.2%
- #37 Shamania
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 140 reviews2025
Dev: Totem Keepers Games
Windows
Shamania is an open world survival game where you can CRAFT, FIGHT, and EXPLORE a vibrant sandbox world with friends in CO-OP. Expand your base as a hub for survival, gather resources, and master professions to unlock new tools and opportunities!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31% ★, Crafting 12.4%, Open World 12.1%, Sandbox 10%, Survival 8.8%
- #38 Savage Lands
73% matchMixed55% of 6,679 reviews2021
Dev: Last Bastion Studios LLC
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Your fight for survival begins on the frozen shores of Tarvhas, where bitter cold and vicious creatures conspire to defeat the unprepared. Uncover the land’s dark history as you and fellow explorers traverse an unforgiving and hostile world to tame the Savage Lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.6% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.6%, Crafting 9.8%, Sandbox 9.7%
- #39 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
72% matchMixed60% of 455 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Crafting 11.9%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Building 9.2%
- #40 Pax Dei
71% matchMixed57% of 10,783 reviews2025
Dev: Mainframe Industries
Windows
Median: 15.9 hrsMean: 69.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?
Why similar: Sandbox 16.6%, MMORPG 16.5% ★, Crafting 15.9%, Open World 14.7%, Base Building 10.3%
- #41 Alchemist's Awakening
73% matchMostly Positive73% of 496 reviews2019
Dev: OsarisGames
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Enter a world full of magic, mystery, beautiful landscapes and dangerous creatures. Build your own destiny, by yourself or with some friends, gather materials, use elements as attacks, recombine them into building blocks... and use your Alchemist's power to give life to any shape you built.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 45.8% ★, Sandbox 15.3%, Crafting 14.8%, Open World 12.5%, Survival 9.2%
- #42 Dawnlands
72% matchMixed52% of 3,131 reviews2023
Dev: SEASUN GAMES PTE. LTD.
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Dawnlands is an Open-World Survival Crafting cross-platform game with a massive world and epic lore. A variety of biomes, relics, and puzzles dot the landscape... an ancient land, lain dormant for centuries, is waiting to be awoken. New stories are waiting to be written.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.8% ★, Crafting 10.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.2%, Open World 9%
- #43 Soulmask
68% matchVery Positive81% of 17,627 reviews2024
Dev: CampFire StudioPub: Qooland Games
Windows
Median: 13.7 hrsMean: 66.7 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Choose your path across a primeval continent shaped by the Mask's power. From lush rainforests to scorched sands, recruit and lead unique tribesmen, build automated production lines, and construct everything from local bases to colossal airships, uncover the secrets of the Mask
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Sandbox 10.8%, Crafting 9.8%, MMORPG 9.7% ★, Building 9.7%
- #44 FortressCraft Evolved!
71% matchMostly Positive72% of 3,055 reviews2015
Dev: ProjectorGamesPub: Digital Tribe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 13.6 hrs≥1hr: 72%
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.3% ★, Sandbox 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Building 9.7%, Survival 7%
- #45 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
68% matchVery Positive82% of 9,646 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 6.3 hrsMean: 15.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%, Survival 8.9%
- #46 Wild Omission
69% matchVery Positive88% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.7% ★, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 10.9%, Open World 10.7%, Building 9.7%
- #47 Outlaws of the Old West
70% matchMixed59% of 6,287 reviews2019
Dev: Virtual Basement LLCPub: Wandering Wizard
Windows
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 22.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Outlaws of the Old West is a massively multiplayer survival MMO with a huge world, thousands of items and a modular building system. Survive the wild, build your own homestead, defeat villainous bandits and work with others to tame the Wild West.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 47.5% ★, Open World 14.5%, Survival 12.3%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Crafting 5.4%
- #48 ENDALOR
67% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Open World 10%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 8.3%, Survival 8.3%
- #49 Re.poly
69% matchVery Positive92% of 135 reviews2019
Dev: Hinkfoot Studios
Windows
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Sandbox 12.8%, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 11.1%, Survival 9.4%
- #50 Mortal Online 2
69% matchMixed60% of 13,523 reviews2022
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 14.1 hrsMean: 145.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Step into Nave, a vast fantasy sandbox world with a player-driven economy, persistent housing, and deep crafting systems. Engage in first-person, full-loot PvP combat with other players and perilous foes. Build, explore, and conquer in an unforgiving world. The land is yours—who will you become?
Why similar: MMORPG 18.5% ★, Sandbox 16.9%, Open World 15.1%, Crafting 12.6%, Survival 8.8%
- #51 Palworld
65% matchVery Positive94% of 417,805 reviews2024
Dev: Pocketpair
Windows
Median: 34.2 hrsMean: 70.0 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Fight, farm, build and work alongside mysterious creatures called "Pals" in this completely new multiplayer, open world survival and crafting game!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Open World 14.2%, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 7.2%
- #52 In Next Life
67% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2026
Dev: Dual DecadePub: Wereviz AB
Windows · Mac
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration. Start in the stone age and live, build, and invent your way to higher civilization. Live and die as well as you can, to gain the experience you need to achieve even more in your next life!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.9% ★, Crafting 11%, Sandbox 10.1%, MMORPG 9.1% ★, Open World 8.6%
- #53 Out of Reach
70% matchMixed57% of 3,044 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.7% ★, Open World 10.6%, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 10.1%, Building 7.3%
- #54 Omega Crafter
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 560 reviews2025
Dev: Preferred Networks
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Adventure in a vast open-world survival craft game with your programmable sidekick Grammi! Program the Grammi to collect materials, build your town, craft weapons and armor to challenge strong enemies! Play alone or with friends online!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.8% ★, Crafting 12.2%, Open World 12.1%, Survival 9.3%, Building 8%
- #55 Longvinter
65% matchMixed67% of 7,526 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Open World 11.6%, Survival 10.6%, Sandbox 10.6%
- #56 Mortal Online
68% matchMixed52% of 2,957 reviews2015
Dev: Star Vault AB
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 21.0 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Mortal Online is a first-person medieval fantasy MMORPG, set in a huge, open, unforgiving world. Choose your race, choose your playstyle, choose a profession, choose where to place your loyalties - if you have any...
Why similar: Open World 20.9%, Sandbox 18.8%, MMORPG 12.5% ★, Survival 10.4%, Crafting 7.3%
